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Champions of Buddhism

Weikza cults in contemporary Burma

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NUS Press
Language
English
Pages
261

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Subjects
Religiöse Bewegung, Buddhist cults, Congresses, Fundamentalismus, Buddhismus, Weikza, Burma, religion
Places
Burma, Birma

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Table of Contents

Preface.
The other Burmese Buddhism -- Kate Crosby
On saints and wizards: ideals of human perfection and power in contemporary Burmese Buddhism -- Patrick Pranke
The longevity of weikza -- Juliane Schober
Spirits versus weikza: two competing ways of mediation -- Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière
The world emperor's battle against the evil forces -- Niklas Foxeus
From bricks to pagodas: weikza specialists and the rituals of pagoda-building -- Keiko Tosa
In pursuit of the sorcerer's power: sacred diagrams as technologies of potency -- Thomas Patton
Healing through weikza: therapeutic cults in the Arakanese context -- Céline Coderey
Powerful yet powerless, powerless yet powerful: being an exorcist in Burma -- Guillaume Rozenberg -- Postscript.
What kind of Buddhism is that? -- Steven Collins.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.

In English.

Published in
Singapore

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
133.4309591
Library of Congress
BQ422 .B87 2014, BQ420 .C43 2014, BQ422.B+

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Pagination
xxvii, 261 pages
Number of pages
261

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Open Library
OL28391769M
Internet Archive
championsofbuddh0000burm
ISBN 10
9971697807
ISBN 13
9789971697808
LCCN
2014329017
OCLC/WorldCat
857391686

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